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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
Masayuki Yoshikawa et al. (18R07)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 75-78
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1318
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Impurity ion radiation intensity has been studied in the GAMMA 10 plasma using both a collisional-radiative model (CR-model) and spectroscopic measurements. We have constructed absolutely calibrated soft X-ray, vacuum ultraviolet, ultraviolet and visible spectrographs for plasma diagnostics. Steady state CR-model calculation for carbon ions is used to obtain the carbon ion emissivities in the plasma. The CR-model calculation results of carbon ion radiation intensities are comparable to the results obtained by the impurity ion spectroscopy. Moreover, plasma rotation measurements are carried out in order to obtain radial electric potential profiles.
